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Chapter 129: The Beast that Roars

Jack stood over a field of broken corpses. Ant corpses. He raised his gaze, going from their drying yellow blood to the dirt mound that dominated the distance. He tightened his fist.

After the pent-up frustrations of getting cheated and chas...

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Chapter 128: Brock the Warrior

Update on my personal ant war: I have squashed the living shit out of them. I believe they are overrun by fear, lack of supplies, and heavy casualties. Their numbers have dwindled drastically -- I only saw one ant today, which I promptly splattere...

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Chapter 127: Spotting Opportunities

Yesterday, I was writing about ants, and today, my house was invaded by those annoying tiny brown ants. How the turn tables.

But I'm on the lookout. I leave no food in the open. I kill them everywhere I see them. I will genocide them before ...

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Chapter 126: The Lay of the Land

The dragonfly shot at Jack like an arrow the size of an adult human. He turned around as fast as he could, but not fast enough. A set of sharp mandibles snapped at his arm, ripping off a good chunk of skin on the way.

“Holy shit!” Jack s...

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Chapter 125: Giant Ring

“Oof,” Jack said, panting. He and Brock had just climbed down a staircase that felt like it reached from the heavens to the earth. He didn’t even know how many miles down they’d traveled. Maybe a hundred.

Even for an E-Grade cultivat...

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Chapter 124: Trial Planet

Stars flew by Jack. There were hundreds of them, thousands. He saw galaxies swirling in the distance, their spires barely discernible even with his new senses. He saw something flashing periodically in the distance, and he saw a column of light st...

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Chapter 123: The Captain’s Burden

The people of Amethyst Mountain were stony, composed individuals. When immortals started fighting near their planet, leading to an explosion of fireworks, they only looked up to admire the view.

However, when a space shuttle barreled through...

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Better Chapter Tiers. Yay!

Hey all,

Just a heads-up that I've changed my chapter-by-tier scheme. Before, it used to be 5-10-32(+1) chapters at the 3-5-10$ tiers respectively.

Now, it is 7-15-32(+1). Which means that you guys at the 5$ tier can now binge the enti...

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Chapter 122: The Return of Gan Salin

Captain Dordok faced the three Hounds in space. A blue and green planet hovered behind them, humongous beyond imagination. Dordok himself was only framed by stars and the Trampling Ram.

“We have no Jack on board,” he said furiously. He r...

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Chapter 121: Piloting is Difficult

“In the name of the Animal Kingdom, surrender Jack Rust!”

The voice echoed through the starship, commanding authority and arrogance. But who could blame them? There were three immortals hovering before the Trampling Ram. Three!

Ins...

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Chapter 120: Revelation

Space cracked as the Trampling Ram pierced through it, sinking between its folds. Jack’s helmet pulled him along. The crocodile’s teeth snapped at nothing, and the tentacles of lower-level space monsters flailed ineffectively.

A frustrat...

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Chapter 119: Trampling Ram vs. Space Monsters

The Trampling Ram flew forward as the three defenders stood on top of it. Bomn, Achilles, and Vashter stared down a horde of space monsters. To the side, Captain Dordok was desperately fighting to prevent the D-Grade monster from approaching the s...

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Chapter 118: Facing the Horde

“Horde?” Jack asked, starting to get worried. “What’s that?”

The captain didn’t reply. His eye increasingly wide, he rushed to the bridge, slamming the door open and not bothering to close it. Jack got a good look for the first t...

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Chapter 117: Horde

“Captain?” Jack said, knocking on the door. As the captain had only called him, he’d left Brock behind. “It’s Jared.”

“I know. Come in.”

Jack pulled the handle, opening the door. The captain’s cabin was a tidy mess of...

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Chapter 116: Entering the Dao Vision

Jack made himself comfortable. He patted the floor before he sat, straightened his pants, shook his upper body once. There was great urgency, yes; but a few seconds of calmness before the storm could mean the world.

Beside him, Brock gave h...

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Chapter 115: The Plight of the Fair Way

“Well?” Vlossana asked, jumping on a crate that lay by the side. Jack’s room, the currently unused cargo hold, didn’t have much in the way of furniture; just the hammock he’d made in the back, a chair and table that Vashter had brought h...

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No chapter today, but 2 2morrow

Hey!

So, I have written today's chapter, but I discovered a significant plot hole literally five minutes ago. Jack has given everyone a fake name, but his species still shows as Human (Earth-387), and people should at least show curiosity ab...

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Chapter 114: Space Monster

Jack was in space. He was floating and covered in a thin film that protected him from the lack of pressure and heat, as well as the radiation. The Trampling Ram awaited behind him, several faces watching through the main room’s glass walls. The ...

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Chapter 113: E-Grade Cultivation

Jack felt space solidify around him. Another successful warp had just ended. With a deep breath of relief, he looked inside himself.

It had already been a week since he boarded the Trampling Ram. In that time, they had met no other starships...

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Chapter 112: A Sky Full of Stars

Gan Salin understood the concept.

Yes, he’d fucked up. Yes, he had lost in single combat against Jack Rust, Vivi Eragorn, Li Xiang, and Edgar Allano. Yes, three of those fights had been broadcasted across Earth-387 and the Animal Kingdom h...

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Chapter 111: The Trampling Ram

Nobody think we're going sci-fi, okay? This is the litrpg progression fantasy crew!

The majority of this Book 2 will be devoted to Trial Planet, which will be set in the litrpg-like settings we all know and love.

With that out of the w...

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Chapter 110: Captain Dordok

The Morningstar bar was precariously placed. Surrounded by five-hundred-foot falls on either side, it only had a flimsy fence protecting its patrons. Coupled with the cityscape stretching under it, it gave the impression of a bar in the sky—whic...

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Chapter 109: Pearl Bay Docks

The docks reminded Jack of a rising waterdrop, like the ones that try to jump up when you throw a rock but don’t manage to dislodge themselves from the neck of water that ties them to the sea.

Jack thought it was close-by. It wasn’t. The...

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Chapter 108: Night-time Mugging

The feshkur brandished his dagger, seeming eager to use it. “Did you hear me, brightskin?” he asked. “Credit card. Now.”

Jack blinked. Half an hour into the galaxy and I’m being robbed… He frowned. No, wait. Three ho...

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Chapter 107: Meet the Galaxy

Pretty chonky chapter. Have fun!

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Stars filled the sky, the ground, and everything in between. Brock was hurtling through space, feeling nothing but seeing everything. Meteors drifted by him, followed by long tails—but only when t...

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Book 2 Prologue

Jack Rust is back!!!

Hello again, everyone. My break was wonderful, and I am now back and stronger than ever! Prepare to tour the galaxy with the strongest, truest weapon -- the Fist.

Our release schedule will continue as is. Mon-Sat f...

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While you wait, have a 37-hour audiobook!

My first published series, Cultivator vs. System, is released as an omnibus, which clocks out at 37+ hours of pure fun for a single Audible credit. It can easily last you until Friday, when I expect to restart my normal publishing...

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Extra Scenes from Book 1

Here are three scenes I inserted into the book during the editing phase. You may have seen some of them, depending on when you started reading. Take this as the dessert after Book 1.

Thank you all for the kind comments on the previous chapte...

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Chapter 106: A Crescendo of Violence

Jack ducked under a strike, then pivoted and smashed out his own. Rufus took it to the chest and whimpered, but his elbow came crashing down on Jack’s head, whose hair were now wet with blood. Jack barely pulled himself aside to evade the strike...

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Chapter 105: Overpowered

Jack smashed his fist into Rufus’s paw, then flickered to the side and ducked under a backhand swipe. The leonine stood in place, tall and proud, unleashing hits like an avalanche. He was a force of nature.

Jack met him hit for hit, but he...

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